KABUL (Reuters) - Afghan police were hunting on Saturday
for attackers who fired rocket-propelled grenades at a U.N.
vehicle, killing a U.N. driver and a doctor from a German aid
agency and seriously wounding a U.N. staffer. The chief U.N.

By Mohsin Raza SAROKI, Pakistan (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of mourners,
mostly Islamist party activists, attended the funeral on
Saturday of a Pakistani man who died in a German jail while
awaiting trial for trying to murder a newspaper editor.

ABUJA (Reuters) - A pipeline blast that killed up to 200
people near Nigeria's biggest city Lagos on Friday caused a
ripple of sadness but no great outpouring of emotion among
Nigerians who are accustomed to such tragedies.

By Mohamed Ali Bile MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Mortars, machine guns and rockets
pounded Mogadishu on Saturday in a seventh day of fierce
militia fighting that has killed at least 138 people so far and
which looks set to intensify.

By Oliver Bullough MOSCOW (Reuters) - Vladimir Putin said on Saturday he would
name a preferred successor to follow him as Russian president
and vowed to ensure a smooth handover of power when he steps
down in 2008.